Graduate Land and Development Officer

Job Description

We are Places for People Group, we build homes and manage communities where everyone is welcome and everyone can thrive, we are placemakers.We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this We surround ourselveswith innovative people, supportive people and passionate people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.More about your role As our Graduate Land and Development Officer within the 2022 Emerging Talent Programme, youll join our north team to support the development lifecycle from land acquisition through to housing sales and management.The two-year programme will support you to develop the core skills, behaviours and technical ability to develop into an Assistant Development Manager.Over the two -year programme you will be supported by industry experts to deliver mixed tenure placemaking developments across the north of England. We operate using the processes and ways of working of a volume housebuilder whilst offering social impactand community investment. Youll collaborate with all departments from sales, finance, build team and have the ability to enhance collaboration and conversation between them.This is a hybrid role with the successful candidate needing to visit site locations across the North and offices in Preston and Leeds.More about youYoull be a recent graduate with a degree in a relevant subject. Developments and Construction is a melting pot of academic backgrounds with a shared love of the industry. Youll want to start a career in development and be excited about doing this in thenorth of England.People may have described you as tenacious with the want to drive forward action and deliver results. Youll be a natural problem solver with the ambition to innovate and deliver creative solution. Youll seek out opportunities for new business and development.You will be required to drive and have access to a vehicle to travel between sites.Most importantly this role should excite and intrigue youThe Benefits Youll join our Emerging Talent programme which brings together SPIRITed and talented individuals from across Places for People. The programme is designed to provide you with a wide range of skills, business insight and sector specific knowledge over twoyears.Youll learn a lot and quickly, youll get exposure to some of our senior leaders as well being connected to a business mentor to support you throughout. Youll be encouraged and empowered to flourish and thrive within a nurturing environment. Our ambitiongives you all the challenge you could wish for and thats why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse ad pioneering environment.Whats next Hopefully what youve read here has got you excited and wanting to apply. The first step of the application process should take around 20 minutes. Youll be asked to complete your personal details, academic history and provide us some additional supportinginformation about you. Dont worry you should know all of the answers. The next part of the application form is asking you to complete a few additional questions, these will ask you to consider your reason for applying, what you want out of the Emerging Talentprogramme and how you would address current societal issues. Take your time over these, your answers will be shared and may lead to additional questions throughout the application process.Finally, youll be asked to upload a CV, this should include an overview of your work history so far, dont forget to include any volunteering youve done. You will need to make sure this includes all of your academic achievements, from GCSE to your mostrecent qualifications.Once weve been able to review your application and CV, successful candidates will be sent invites to complete a video interview. This gives you the opportunity to give us more information and offer insight into the person behind the CV.